House detective Bill Laaw stands guard at the entrance as the notorious jewel thief Eddie "High Pants" Lowe looks for a weak spot in the hotel's defenses. To the left stands femme fatale Maude Merry, another jewel thief, who plans on compromising Bill Laaw to allow her the run of the hotel.

However before she sets her plan in action she meets Eddie at the Pink Flamingo Bar and they start a furious romance that may bring down Billy Laaw who put Eddie's father in Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit and reward them with the fabulous Maltese Queen's Black Tiara.

Will our two lovers escape the fate of most Film Noir characters and retire to Bimini with their treasure instead of one being brought down by a hail of bullets and the other off to Sing Sing to join his father?

Rare though it may be to see a Depression photo of a pristine 2-year-old car, that Buick is actually a '37 -- not a '38, which differs from the '37 only slightly by virtue of a more aggressive grille consisting of heavier chrome bars terminating in a radial curve as they meet the hood side panels.

What is that car lurking in the hubcap?

That '39 Buick is actually a '37.

Lovely Beaux Arts architecture and up-to-the-minute 1939 1938 1937 Buick.

Well, it didn't burn, anyway.

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I do! The suit and the two-tone shoes.

I guess it wasn't flammable enough. They had to demolish it in 1968 to build the 'Roney Plaza Apartments'.

Imagine! Appearing in public without a hat!

I can’t decide what’s better: the building or the car.